The still-going-strongGuided By Voices have a new LP in Let's Go Eat The Factory, which, as previously mentioned, is currently streaming in full at NPR. The band also recently released a new single for free download, "The Unsnkable Fats Domino", and played said single during last night's appearance at Late Night with David Letterman (1/3). Check out video from that performance, Greg Demos going down included, below.

GBV wish they could give a shit - just a little bit. They don't care about falling on Letterman or all you time blowing idiots making bad hippie jokes. True rock lives in Dayton all you commenting scum need a break from whacking off on you iPads.

They sound fine to me. Better than a lot of the freakin' poseurs you find haunting the clubs right now. My guess is that most of the rim jobbers that post here can't play a damn instrument and haven't eaten pussy in their lifetimes.

This is and has always been the weakest GBV lineup in the 1,000 year history of the band. Mitch can't wipe the anals of Doug or Nate (or Paul Comstock for that matter). I think there's something nice in Bob bringing these dudes along for one last ride but at the expense of tarnishing an incredible body of work from '92 - '02. Demos got what's been coming to him, making a joke of himself on national tv.

Great performance. This has energy and spontaneity, something that was usually missing during the Doug Gillard years. They sound like a real band again. And the new album (which is pretty great) reminds me of Propeller a little bit.

It's pretty bad ass that the band and the Late Show producers chose to leave Greg Demos' fall in. That kind of shit happens on "live to tape" shows all the time, and it's usually re-shot (I was working on a "live" show where Shawn Colvin stopped during her performance about ten times to clear her throat - really lame - until they got a complete take).

(Can't the teenage trolls hanging around here take it back to Youtube where they belong?)

I love that all you morons can only make fun of them for being old. You do realize that someday, you're all going to be the same fucking age, except not one person will give a fuck that you used to troll a blog.

Jam bands are better musicians than this band. This band needs to learn how to play their instruments before they can jam. The singer is also out of tune. I don't know if he always sang this bad, but he needs help.

you guys should start making fun of sonic youth (rip?) for being hippies (or pretending to want to):
THURSTON: I'm telling you, man, if we're going to go on tour with Phish ...
KIM: It's too flower hippies.
THURSTON: But you have to buy into flower hippies because flower hippies are the only way we're going to make money in the future.

JUTTA: Oh, good.
THURSTON: Because Phish sell millions. We sell hundreds. We have to sell millions.

JUTTA: Phish?
KIM: Do they sell millions? I think they have lots of people coming to their concerts.
THURSTON: No, they sell millions. They've usurped the Grateful Dead's audience, which is the audience that we should have usurped, but we weren't as clever as them.
KIM: So this is all about making money?
THURSTON: This is all about making money.

I'm actually with the guy who made the ridiculous threats above. Maybe if we start beating the shit out of these skinny Brooklyn idiots at shows, they'll drop out of the scene, and underground rock won't be the obnoxious mess it is right now.

@12:27 - I'll agree that GBV's following can be overzealous, but these guys worked their butts off, in very unsual ways, to get the decent sized cult following they have. Don't go crazy; people know they're not the Beatles.

Animal Collective is pretty overrated, but they've got that zeitgeist thing going now - lots of very young (and annoying) Brooklyn hipsters see AC as the thing that makes them cool, different, and "Brooklyn" (ugh).

The Neutral Milk Hotel worship is a total fault of the increasingly homogenous "indie" music press, which has treated this comeback as the second coming of Syd Barrett, and it's not.

I'd be more worried about the worship of totally shitty bands like Arcade Fire and ridiculously overrated groups like Radiohead than these more cultish sensations.

People who like GBV, NMH and AC are the same people who try to hard. They think by liking some of these slightly underground bands that they are hip. People don't really like those bands for their music they just like the idea of liking these type of bands....more follow the leader jive!

Arcade Fire's last LP debuted on the Billboard Top Ten, they headlined MSG, and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. And they suck. I wouldn't even say they're a cult item at all anymore, they're a midlevel mainstream act.

I wouldn't call GBV or Jeff Mangum, probably even Animal Collective, the "big three." GBV is probably not even in the "big fifty" of current independent artists, they're just riding a wave of having a new (justifiably) critically acclaimed new LP, and Jeff Mangum just came out of hiding, which is why you're hearing about him so much right now.

Haven't heard much about Animal Collective lately, but wait until they put out a new album.

@1:14: I actually heard the Bee Thousand LP at a friend's place. "Word of mouth."

And, I think your logic about "poseurs" is flawed. A band being heard through reviews, record stores, word of mouth is normal. There is no pop band you can name where this wasn't the process. There's an intrinsic contract between musicians, who make the music, and listeners, who enjoy it.

By your logic, early Jandek would be too mainstream, because he actually released and distributed his records.

I guess the only "pure" group would be one that recorded secretly in their basement and built up a huge discography that wasn't intended for anyone to hear. Wait, I think there was a group just like this. They were called Guided By Voices.

@1:49: That's crazy, and bullshit. A college frat band playing for high dollar on campus, and a bunch of reclusive drunks making messy, secret masterpieces in their basement have nothing in common. NOTHING.

I know you want to make this Phish/GBV connection, but it's simply impossible. (It's 1:53, isn't it time for you to jerk off?)